Centre may expand SECC database, grant constitutional status to OBC panel

These moves are aimed at maintaining pro-poor image till 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Sanjeeb Mukherjee & Archis Mohan  |  New Delhi 

Fresh from its UP success, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to go into the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with more pro-poor image and less as a pro-economic reform party. To maintain this, the Modi government plans to roll out two big measures in the coming months. Firstly, a comprehensive revision of the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) database in on the Centre's agenda. The objective of the review will be to include all left out beneficiaries from the 2011 census and widen the coverage of the government's social welfare schemes. It could also help the party reach ...

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Centre may expand SECC database, grant constitutional status to OBC panel

These moves are aimed at maintaining pro-poor image till 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Fresh from its UP success, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to go into the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with its image burnished more as a pro-poor and less of a pro-economic reform party. To this end, the Modi government plans to roll out two big measures in the coming months.The first, is a comprehensive revision of the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) database. The objective of the review will be to include all left out beneficiaries from the 2011 census and widen the coverage of the government's social welfare schemes. It could also help the party reach out to the poor across all castes, particularly its core supporters among upper castes.The second; which the Centre hopes to achieve in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament, is the passage of a Bill to give constitutional status to a National Commission for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes. With this, the Modi government hopes to consolidate the BJP's new found support base amongst Other Backward Classes ... Fresh from its UP success, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to go into the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with more pro-poor image and less as a pro-economic reform party. To maintain this, the Modi government plans to roll out two big measures in the coming months. Firstly, a comprehensive revision of the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) database in on the Centre's agenda. The objective of the review will be to include all left out beneficiaries from the 2011 census and widen the coverage of the government's social welfare schemes. It could also help the party reach ... image
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